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12-05-2005, 03:04 PM
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Cleveland Powered
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Yes, I know they're not Fords but this is still an amazing story.
Quick version: In 1989 VH1 gave away 36 Corvettes. One from every year from 1953 to 1989. The winner sold them to an artist who planned to use them as a project but lost interest. So they sat in a garage for 15 years collecting dust. See the link HERE for the story & pics. |
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12-05-2005, 03:10 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Would be worth a fortune now though i bet.
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12-05-2005, 03:14 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
 
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Thats heartbreaking, some of those Vettes are as rare as hens teeth and highly sought after too!
Its like finding buried treasure.
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12-05-2005, 03:19 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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If carefully detailed theyd be awesome and could sell them off if they are just gonna sit round
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12-05-2005, 03:27 PM
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Low and Loud
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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That is soo sad to see, as casper said some of those are as RARE AS....
reminds me of this dimwitt near where i use to live, has a Olive Drab Green XA GT sitting in the shed, untouched, Wont sell it and its getting dirtier by the day :(
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12-05-2005, 03:29 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Enough to make one cry
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12-05-2005, 03:41 PM
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The one and only
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Carrum Downs, Victoria
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They would be worth heaps.
I'd even have one or two
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12-05-2005, 03:49 PM
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Last warning
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Location: Mornington Peninsula, Victoria HeadCount: 3
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its kinda surreal...
the feeling of being there would be so weird :o
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12-05-2005, 05:25 PM
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I agree... it reminded me of chenobyl in a weird way. Everything left exactly as it was, almost untouched for years.
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12-05-2005, 05:59 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South East Melbourne
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If that ******** 'artist' paints those I'll fly out there and beat the living crap through him!
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12-05-2005, 06:16 PM
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The 'Stihl' Man
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TAS
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jesus thats some thick dust, its such a shame that the corvette is a GM product, they are literally beautiful cars.
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12-05-2005, 06:16 PM
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buickman
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: eastern suburbs Melb Vic
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Some big dollar cars there. I prefer Corvettes over mustangs and having owned a 1982 collector edition. Which I purchased in Gilroy just outside San Fransico and drove it down the BigSur to LA to ship back to Australia. Still annoyed that I sold it.
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12-05-2005, 08:24 PM
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454 Power
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Townsville, NQ
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Quote from buickman "I prefer Corvettes over mustangs"
Dude you make it sound like those are the only two american cars ever made.... I have unexplainable love for the mustang, camaro's, challengers, and other obscure things some of you guys have probably never heard of... Vette's never really rated very high on my list though, i really appreciate that thread, and feel saddened looking at it, but there's plenty of things i'd rather own than a vette.
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12-05-2005, 10:33 PM
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buickman
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: eastern suburbs Melb Vic
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[QUOTE=*rayman*]Quote from buickman "I prefer Corvettes over mustangs"
Dude you make it sound like those are the only two american cars ever made.... I have unexplainable love for the mustang, camaro's, challengers, and other obscure things some of you guys have probably never heard of... Vette's never really rated very high on my list though, i really appreciate that thread, and feel saddened looking at it, but there's plenty of things i'd rather own than a vette.[/QUO I know there were many tough great looking cars made in the US in the 60's and early 70's from other makers but none had the IRS handling or braking power. Plus the vette continued with performance cars. As other manufacturers downsized and detuned their cars from the scare of the oil embago and made them real hidious in appearance. I would take a BA Fairmont ghia V8, Falcon GTP, XR8 or XR6 turbo over anything Ford is producing in passanger cars nowdays in the US. The Dodge Viper or the Porsche destroying C6 Corvette are my personal US choices for current US performance cars. buickman buickman |
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13-05-2005, 07:41 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane QLD
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That's heartbreaking. Amazing pictures too... sad thing is, this happens all to often (cars just being put away and not looked at again, not the VH1 bit!).
Back in the UK, a good friend of my parents loves vintage Bentleys, and can afford them too, the bastard. We went with him one time to take a look at a Speed Six he had heard about that had been in a barn for the last 45 years and might be for sale because its elderly owner had died and his widow wanted was having a "clearout". Sure enough, up the back of a small outhouse covered in a sheet and surrounded by hay, other car parts and God knows what else, was the car. Hadn't been even so much as looked at in nearly half a century. The guy parked it up after a minor accident and never got around to repairing it - it was only a broken axle and some very minor scratches (he hit a kerb side on, apparently). Needless to say, bastard friend of my parents offered her a price for it, she nearly fainted (as did we when he told us later!) and he came back with a low-loader the next day to take it away. It's currently getting ready for its first British summer in a long while. That's how it should be.
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13-05-2005, 09:41 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I love the 1950's convertible ones, forgot what they are called though....
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13-05-2005, 09:58 AM
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Its a sad story...
I love those vettes.... -sniff-
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13-05-2005, 10:07 AM
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She needs premium dude...
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Location: Geelong
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What's wrong with putting cars in storage? Do you seriously think they would still be around if they were daily drivers?
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13-05-2005, 10:08 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I have dreams about this kinda stuff, walking into a dirty shed and finding sh|tloads of old cars..
oooooooooooh yeahhhhh |
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13-05-2005, 10:14 AM
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No longer driving a Ford.
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Those cars really do look unloved. And I agree with psycho chicken, if that "artist" does paint even one of them...
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13-05-2005, 02:27 PM
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It could be worse... the "artist" could be a ricer or a sculpter!!!
 : That link is the automotive equivalent of abuse-porn... Lotsa hotties but what's been done to them is just wrong wrong wrong! Love my Corvettes! '76 Stingray for me pleeeeeeease! -Dave- |
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13-05-2005, 04:23 PM
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Oh my......................
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13-05-2005, 06:51 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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imagine if we found a big warehouse of old aussie muscle cars :sm_drool::sm_drool:
thats an awesome find imo, they are lucky because atleast the cars will have hardly any k's on em and no rust.
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13-05-2005, 10:48 PM
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Should be a Criminal Offence. |
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14-05-2005, 01:13 AM
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did anyone actually read the thread. It was a good read.
Kinda sad, to see them all sitting there. I'm sure that one day they will be restored, atleast some of them. For those who didn't read, the owner is Peter Max, a famous artist who has done a lot of charity work in the past, probably a lot of drugs too. Hopefully he will come to his sences and donate them to a museum or auction them off for charity. Cheers for the link. |
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14-05-2005, 11:18 PM
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